Alpaca

Project Manager

United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years), Expert & Leadership (9+ years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Financial Services, Brokerage, FintechIndustries

Who We Are

Alpaca is a US-headquartered self-clearing broker-dealer and brokerage infrastructure for stocks, ETFs, options, crypto, fixed income, 24/5 trading, and more. Our recent Series C funding round brought our total investment to over $170 million, fueling our ambitious vision.

Alpaca is a licensed financial services company, serving hundreds of financial institutions across 40 countries with our institutional-grade APIs. This includes broker-dealers, investment advisors, wealth managers, hedge funds, and crypto exchanges, totaling over 6 million brokerage accounts.

Our global team is a diverse group of experienced engineers, traders, and brokerage professionals who are working to achieve our mission of opening financial services to everyone on the planet. We're deeply committed to open-source contributions and fostering a vibrant community, continuously enhancing our award-winning, developer-friendly API and the robust infrastructure behind it.

Alpaca is proudly backed by top-tier global investors, including Portage Ventures, Spark Capital, Tribe Capital, Social Leverage, Horizons Ventures, Unbound, SBI Group, Derayah Financial, Elefund, and Y Combinator.

Our Team Members

We're a dynamic team of 230+ globally distributed members who thrive working from our favorite places around the world, with teammates spanning the USA, Canada, Japan, Hungary, Nigeria, Brazil, the UK, and beyond! We're searching for passionate individuals eager to contribute to Alpaca's rapid growth. If you align with our core values—Stay Curious, Have Empathy, and Be Accountable—and are ready to make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Your Role

As a Project Manager, you will be expected to leverage deep cross-functional expertise to coordinate with enterprise customers globally, guiding integrations from conception to launch by aligning technical teams, managing timelines, mitigating risks, and ensuring all deliverables meet strategic objectives in the following ways:

  • Own end-to-end project management for enterprise launches using our brokerage APIs (equities, crypto, options, and more)
  • Collaborate with external stakeholders (product, engineering, compliance teams, etc.) to scope, plan, and execute integration timelines
  • Work cross-functionally with internal teams (BD, engineering, legal, compliance, operations and customer success) to resolve issues and align on resources
  • Facilitate weekly partner check-ins, drive action items, and ensure progress toward key deliverables
  • Track and report on project status, risks, and dependencies to internal leadership and partner stakeholders
  • Help partners navigate onboarding requirements, such as KYC, AML and regulatory disclosures
  • Document processes and continuously improve onboarding frameworks to scale future partner integrations

Internally, the Project Manager is a key person to give the best context of a partner to many teams, including leadership. Simply put, the Project Manager is the voice of the customer internally at Alpaca.

As a project manager in a highly collaborative role, the ideal candidate must demonstrate a strong communication, troubleshooting, solutioning and proactiveness skillset.

Key Responsibilities

  • Be the face of Alpaca to some of the largest enterprise businesses in their respective regions
  • Provide updates to Alpaca’s leadership team, being transparent with successes, blockers and solutions
  • Stay updated on internal product development timelines, and work closely with the technical teams to roll out new features to partners
  • Establish yourself as a subject matter expert on Alpaca’s API and collaborate with fintechs around the world
  • Ensure feature requests by partners are communicated to the technical teams and are adequately prioritized
  • Support the success team with advice on integration items, including new products
  • Solutionize for partners targeting key regions Alpaca is focusing on, driving the company's mission

Skills

Project Management
Cross-functional Coordination
Enterprise Customer Management
Technical Team Alignment
Timeline Management
Risk Mitigation
Deliverable Management

Alpaca

API-first brokerage for stock trading

About Alpaca

Alpaca Securities LLC operates in the stock brokerage industry by providing an API-first brokerage service that allows other businesses to create their own trading applications. This service enables companies to integrate stock trading functionality into their platforms without the need to become brokers themselves, saving them time and resources. Alpaca's API supports seamless trading experiences for users and includes features like Local Currency Trading, which allows international investors to trade US stocks in their local currency. Additionally, Alpaca offers crypto wallets and coin pair trading, expanding the financial services available to its clients. Unlike traditional brokers, Alpaca focuses on a business-to-business model, catering primarily to other companies that want to offer trading services to their customers. The goal of Alpaca is to simplify the trading process for businesses and their users while providing a secure and efficient platform for executing trades.

San Mateo, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$84.5MTotal Funding
CONVERTIBLECompany Stage
Fintech, Financial ServicesIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Competitive salary & stock options
Medical, dental, & vision
Home office setup stipend
Monthly Brex Card stipend

Risks

Increased competition from fintech platforms like GUGU offering commission-free trading.
Potential regulatory challenges in international markets may complicate Alpaca's expansion.
Self-clearing transition introduces operational risks in managing settlement processes.

Differentiation

Alpaca offers API-first brokerage services, enabling businesses to build trading applications.
Alpaca supports local currency trading, simplifying US stock trading for international investors.
Alpaca provides crypto wallets and coin pair trading, expanding financial services for clients.

Upsides

Alpaca's self-clearing transition enhances asset transfers and securities lending opportunities.
Partnership with Derayah Financial accelerates Middle Eastern business expansion for Alpaca.
Alpaca's limit orders and extended hours trading for fractional shares lead retail trading.

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